An Hour Off the Clock with David Reader of Keller & Heckman, LLP- Radio Program(2.24 minutes, 3.3 MB)
A native of California, Scott moved to Washington, DC in 1982 to attend graduate school at Georgetown University. In November of 1985 he joined the MassMutual Life Insurance Company as a career agent. In 1986, he was named "Rookie of the Year," followed by the national "New Agent of the Year" in 1987. During his career with MassMutual, Scott qualified for their Leader's Club, Master's Club and President's Council. In July of 2001, Scott joined David Wexler and Keith Eig to create Greenberg, Wexler and Eig, LLC.
From 1990 to 1994, Scott served on the Board of Directors for the Washington DC Life Underwriters (NALU) chapter. Scott has also served on several National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors/Greater Washington (NAIFA) committees including Speaker Relations (chaired 1999) and Continuing Education (chaired 2000). He recently concluded serving a two year term on The Greater Washington Foundation Foundation of Insurance and Financial Advisors (GWFIFA) Board.
Scott attended the University of California, Irvine where he earned a Bachelor of Science and Georgetown University where he received his Masters degree in Science. Scott received his Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) designation from the American College in 1995, and went on to earn the Family Business Specialist certification in 1997. In 1997, Scott founded the Family Business Forum of Washington, DC and served as its chairman in 1998.
Scott is a frequent speaker and author. He has also conducted numerous seminars for the insurance, accounting, legal and medical communities, as well as authored articles on employee benefits, estate planning and business succession planning for several trade publications. As a specialist in the advanced uses of life and disability insurance, Scott has been interviewed by Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, Legal Times and was a regular contributor to the "Ask the Experts" column in the Washington Business Journal.
Scott devotes considerable time to charitable organizations in the Washington area including the National Capitol Poison Control Center and the American Heart Association where, in 1998, he founded and chaired Heart's Delight, a fundraiser in memory of a friend who died suddenly of a heart attack at age 40. Because of Scott's vision and leadership, the Heart's Delight Wine Tasting and Auction has become one of the most successful charity wine events on the east coast. Heart's Delight has raised over $6,500,000 over the last nine years.
Today, Scott spends much of his non-working time as a commissioner for the Montgomery Youth Hockey Association where each of his three sons play ice hockey. He and his wife also write a nationally syndicated weekly wine column that appears in the Examiner family of newspapers.
Scott and his wife, Cindy, a radiation oncologist, and their three sons Sam, Brian and Andy, reside in Potomac, MD